Contracts & Installations
Fleet Briefing: GM and Teijin, Networkfleet, NREL on EVs, and Mitsubishi
General Motors and carbon fiber products company Teijin Limited are to co-develop carbon fiber products for potential worldwide, high-volume use in GM cars, trucks and crossovers. ...
ECOtality, Silver Spring to Offer Smart Grid EV Charging
Electric transportation and storage technology company ECOtality Inc. and Silver Spring Networks Inc., have announced an agreement to integrate ECOtality's Blink electric vehicle charging stations with ...
Nissan Leaf Rolling out to 50 States by March
Nissan is rolling out its all-electric Leaf to seven more states, with plans for availability in all 50 states and the District of Columbia ...
Siemens to Buy eMeter
Siemens Industry Inc. has signed an agreement to acquire all of the stock of smart grid firm eMeter Corporation.
The parties expect to close the deal in ...
Frito-Lay Asks Town for $600k to Aid Water Efficiency, Automation
Frito-Lay is asking the town of Vancouver, Wash., for $585,000 in water bill credits over three years, to enable its local plant to make ...
Lighting Briefing: Millard and Groom, Carmanah, Platinum, Lightolier and Tyree
Refrigerated warehousing and distribution services company Millard and commercial energy project firm Groom Energy have completed the installation of an LED lighting retrofit at Millard's Allentown, ...
Renewables Briefing: NextEra, Google, South Carolina Electric & Gas, Boeing and SolarCity
A NextEra Energy Resources LLC wind farm in Oklahoma providing energy to Google is operational, according to McClatchy-Tribune Regional News.
The 100.8 MW Minco II Wind ...
Solar Briefing: L’Oreal, Carmanah, San Diego, Cogenra and Defense Dept.
L'Oreal USA's North Little Rock, Ark., manufacturing facility's solar array installation is fully operational. The 13 kW solar array will provide 18,000 kWh of electricity annually, ...
Texas Children’s Hospital Installs Aircuity’s OptiNet
Texas Children's Hospital has installed Aircuity's ventilation efficiency system OptiNet in its Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute building.
The installation helped the building achieve silver-level ...
Enbala Connects American Water to PJM Smart Grid
American Water and Enbala Power Networks are two of the first companies to take advantage of new rules that allow industrial loads in ...
Kone Taps KMI for EHS Software
Elevator and escalator firm Kone has installed KMI's Environmental Health and Safety Software Suite.
Kone sites in over 50 countries worldwide now have access to KMI's Incident ...
Walmart, Daimler Announce EV Stations and Networks
Ecotality will install electric vehicle charging stations at over 10 Walmart stores in California, Oregon, and Washington, the two companies have announced.
The retailer will participate ...
Green Building Brief: Seattle Benchmarking, Kone Elevators, Retrofit Rules
Seattle is moving into the next stage of its Building Energy Benchmarking and Reporting Program, launched in May. The city has ...
High-Efficiency Motors, Drives Can Cut 10% of Energy Spend
A medium-sized industrial company with an electricity spend of £50,000 ($78,000) could save £5,000 per year by fitting variable speed drives and higher efficiency ...
Office Tower Gains 20% Efficiency; Seattle U. Installs Fabric Ductwork
A Seattle University library and 17-floor Dallas office tower have installed systems to dramatically improve efficiency of their heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems....
Coke, MIT Machines Reward Consumers for Recycling
Coca-Cola, Kroger and MIT are all rolling out bottle recycling machines that reward consumers for their deposits.
Wholly owned Coke subsidiary Coca-Cola Recycling has started ...
Fleet Briefing: 2012 Fuel Economy Guide, Honda Fit EV, Nissan, Coulomb, GE, Coda
The 2012 Mitsubishi i electric vehicle has come first in the EPA's list of "fuel sipper" vehicles, with miles per gallon equivalent of ...
Food Manufacturers ‘Holding Back rPET’; Lush Outsources Recycling
The use of recycled PET in the food sector is being held back by poor quality control and by brand owners’ misconceptions, according to ...
Marriott to Install Demand Response at Over 250 Hotels
Marriott International and Constellation Energy have agreed to develop over 23 MW of load response capability across more than 250 of the hotel’s properties ...
World’s Second-Largest Data Center Nabs LEED Gold
Quality Technology Services has achieved LEED Gold certification at its Atlanta Metro facility, which it says is the world’s second-largest data centers.
LEED president ...
